McDonald’s worker killed woman entering restaurant, NC officials say. He gets prison
A McDonald’s worker shot and killed a woman as she entered a fast-food restaurant in North Carolina, officials said.
Sam Antwan Ivey left his workplace and was captured outside his child’s elementary school with the gun used in the 2023 shooting. Now, more than a year later, he has been ordered to spend decades in prison, according to R. Andrew Murray, district attorney for Henderson County.
Ivey was sentenced after he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and gun crimes in the death of 30-year-old Jacklyn Reed. Prosecutors didn’t list attorney information for Ivey in their Jan. 27 news release.
McDonald’s didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment about the worker’s sentencing. But it shared a statement with McClatchy News when the deadly shooting was reported in Hendersonville on Oct. 9, 2023.
“My entire restaurant team remains in shock after today’s tragic events, and our hearts go out to the victim’s family during this difficult time,” Teresa Edwards, owner and operator of the restaurant, told McClatchy News in an email. “We are concentrating on ensuring our people receive the support they need, and are making crisis counselors available to all employees.”
Edwards also said guns weren’t allowed at the restaurant, located on Four Seasons Boulevard and roughly a 25-mile drive south from the mountain town of Asheville.
The Hendersonville Police Department said Reed, who is from Tennessee, first went into the McDonald’s after arguing with another woman at a bus stop. She left the restaurant and returned before she touched Ivey during a “disturbance,” officers said in an October 2023 news release and email to McClatchy News.
“Reed was unarmed and of little threat when she attempted to regain entry,” prosecutors said. “Ivey was armed with a semi-automatic pistol that he was carrying unlawfully due to his status as a convicted felon. Ivey shot Reed one time in the upper chest, killing her almost instantly.”
Within about an hour of the shooting, Ivey was caught in the pickup line outside his child’s school. Police didn’t believe he planned to cause harm there.
Then on Jan. 27, prosecutors reported that Ivey pleaded guilty to “second-degree murder, possession of a weapon of mass destruction, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and possession of a weapon on educational property.” The 37-year-old Hendersonville man was ordered to spend roughly 21 to 26 years behind bars.
